Tim_Tyler comments on Complex Novelty - Less Wrong

26 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 20 December 2008 12:31AM

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Comment author: Tim_Tyler 20 December 2008 09:22:24AM 1 point [-]

Sure, but that is not really a "Turing machine of that size" - it's a substantially bigger one - since it has to encode the input, and another program expressing decoding it and writing it out.